Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, to listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Under
Speaker 1: the circumstances, it was just the type of game the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers had to get through, and they did that.
Speaker 1: Brett Brown said beforehand that the best tribute the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers organization could give to Kobe Bryant's and the fierce
Speaker 1: competitor that he was during his twenty year NBA career
Speaker 1: was to go out and win tonight's basketball game. They
Speaker 1: did at one fifteen, one oh four over the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors. I'm Brian Seltzer were standing by hoping to
Speaker 1: hear from Brett Brown post game. The big basketball story
Speaker 1: tonight in terms of what happened on the courts, was
Speaker 1: that Joel Embiid return and he scored incredibly twenty four
Speaker 1: points in twenty six minutes of action while wearing the
Speaker 1: number twenty four in honor of Kobe Bryant, one of
Speaker 1: the two numbers that Briant wore. The number twenty four
Speaker 1: prior to tonight, had not been worn by a seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers player since May the eleventh, nineteen eighty six, that
Speaker 1: was the date of the final game of Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer Bobby Jones's career, and Beat and Jones talked earlier today.
Speaker 1: Both of them are huge Kobe Bryant fans. They felt
Speaker 1: it would be more than appropriate that for this one night,
Speaker 1: Joel where the number twenty four that had been retired
Speaker 1: in honor of Bobby Jones. But yeah, wearing number twenty four,
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid went for twenty four. Crazy Now that stuff works,
Speaker 1: and honestly like this just this was the type of
Speaker 1: game where, quite frankly, in my opinion, you really just
Speaker 1: don't get bogged down in over analyzing it. There was
Speaker 1: so much emotion going into it. If you saw any
Speaker 1: of the coverage from practice the seventy six or training
Speaker 1: complex yesterday, heard some of the stuff that guys were
Speaker 1: saying in the locker room before the game, followed on
Speaker 1: social the tributes on guys sneakers that all the players
Speaker 1: wore white numbers eight and twenty four uniforms before the game.
Speaker 1: If you were in here, like the feeling. Not that
Speaker 1: I've been doing this forever, but in the seven or
Speaker 1: so years that I've been doing this, I've never heard
Speaker 1: the building more silent than it was at the start
Speaker 1: of the ten minutes ceremony when there was a moment
Speaker 1: of silence in honor of Kobe Bryant. There were nine
Speaker 1: different lights spotlighted on the court in honor of the
Speaker 1: nine people who died in the helicopter crash in southern
Speaker 1: California on Sunday. A frame number white and maroon thirty
Speaker 1: three jersey for Kobe Bryant and the number he wore
Speaker 1: at Lower Merion during his high school days, was illuminated
Speaker 1: center court. There was a decal of number thirty three
Speaker 1: on this far sideline. Just everything, every touch the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers had tonight in honoring the life and legacy of
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant was so well thought out. It was so
Speaker 1: hard felt and touching. There was no music played during
Speaker 1: pregame introductions, there were no pregame introductions, and when the
Speaker 1: ball was tipped, the Sixers took an eight second shot
Speaker 1: clock violation. Golden State Warriors took a twenty four second
Speaker 1: shot clock violation, And it just felt so weird that
Speaker 1: there was business to be taken care of tonight in
Speaker 1: the playing of a basketball game. Golden State Warriors happened
Speaker 1: to be on the Sixers schedule. They're obviously the team
Speaker 1: with the worst record in the end BA right now.
Speaker 1: Sixers finally took control in the fourth quarter when they
Speaker 1: started the frame with a nine nothing run. Golden State
Speaker 1: had kind of nipped the Sixers Heels, even leading by
Speaker 1: two points at one point in the third quarter, but
Speaker 1: the Sixers finally had enough to put Golden State away.
Speaker 1: Twenty four points, ten rebounds for Joel Embiid, seventeen for
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. Al Horford flirted with his third career triple
Speaker 1: w at twelve, eleven and eight. Who Old Nato was
Speaker 1: huge when the seventy Sixers needed a jump. He scored
Speaker 1: fifteen of his nineteen points, playing the entirety of tonight's
Speaker 1: second quarter shake Milton well done by him eleven points
Speaker 1: five or six from the field to go with two
Speaker 1: assists and a steal in his second straight start, just
Speaker 1: the first two starts of his career, and Tobias Harris
Speaker 1: six to ten from the field for fourteen points. Seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers knock off the Warriors one fifteen, one oh four.
Speaker 1: So the Sixers have won seven out of the last
Speaker 1: eight games. They now have Joel Embiid back, we'll talk
Speaker 1: with Tom McGinnis about how things looked with Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: out there, and also just the emotional undertones surrounding tonight's game.
Speaker 1: Starting progress Sprett Brown courtesy of NBC Sports Philadelphia. As
Speaker 1: a as a basketball world, it's deeper than the NBA,
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's tough too. It's really hard to
Speaker 1: put into words that that that environment that we just
Speaker 1: left due to that coach was it hard to really
Speaker 1: come up with the right energy to really begin in
Speaker 1: this game. And kind of seems like you guys were
Speaker 1: a little I didn't even I really chose not to
Speaker 1: coach at the start. You know, you felt like you're
Speaker 1: cheapening the night. You know, you obviously were trying to
Speaker 1: get us organized, but to come out and handle a
Speaker 1: game like you normally would handle a game, I would
Speaker 1: not be telling the truth. If that's that's how we started,
Speaker 1: and uh, that's that. You go through the sequence again,
Speaker 1: led the drawl wearing twenty four with Bobby Jones and
Speaker 1: everything like that. I cannot you called him this morning
Speaker 1: and ask him for permission. I really don't know that story, right.
Speaker 1: What was the deal with with netto he played fifteen
Speaker 1: straight minutes. Is that just you just let him go
Speaker 1: because he's playing so well? As it was as it
Speaker 1: was communicated to me, like I'm getting ready to have
Speaker 1: Ben come back in and two Ben's you know, I
Speaker 1: suppose credit as a teammate. He he sort of passed
Speaker 1: on down the bench to one of my assistants, let's
Speaker 1: let him keep going, and I said, that's a that's
Speaker 1: an interesting, uh selfless instruction, and so we did, and
Speaker 1: he was he rewarded us. I think when you have
Speaker 1: nineteen first half points, it's not something that you know,
Speaker 1: you normally do gonna let Ben sit there, sit there?
Speaker 1: But HOWU had played so well we decided to roll
Speaker 1: with it. And he's certainly I think justified with his
Speaker 1: performance that decision. How big is that for a bank
Speaker 1: asserting he I think he was averaging forty minutes over
Speaker 1: the nine games without Joey. You can kind of give
Speaker 1: him a little bit of a rest there thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it. I think it adds up. I think
Speaker 1: it helps a little. Like he's still I'm sure feels
Speaker 1: bulletproof at twenty three years old. He plays so hard,
Speaker 1: he plays extended minutes. You know, there's a part of
Speaker 1: that I don't feel entirely comfortable with. But he shore
Speaker 1: plays hard and he you know, it doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: sort of like let off. I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: you look at his stats, ended up nine for ten
Speaker 1: from the from the free throw line, seventeen points. You know,
Speaker 1: him on normal terms without how wul's sort of situation evolving.
Speaker 1: He's going to pepper a stat sheet again. And as
Speaker 1: I said, I respect the way it was communicated to me,
Speaker 1: like he was his it was his sort of instruction,
Speaker 1: you know, let's let how we'll keep playing. He's playing
Speaker 1: really well. I respect that. Seventy six Ers head coach
Speaker 1: Brett Brown that courtesy of NBC Sports Philadelphia, will be
Speaker 1: joined by Tom McGuinness down here at the Center found
Speaker 1: the seventy six Ers one fifteen one oh four victory
Speaker 1: of the Golden State Warriors, and kind of thought time
Speaker 1: based on that excerpt of the press conference we heard,
Speaker 1: like Brett's statement that he didn't even coach after the
Speaker 1: game gone underway for the first little bit, Like that's
Speaker 1: it's pretty talent me. What what could you really do?
Speaker 1: Like had you broadcast a game it just didn't really
Speaker 1: feel like anything it was. It was flat and particularly
Speaker 1: like the shot clock violation and the eight second call,
Speaker 1: you're literally letting the ball lie on the floor and everybody.
Speaker 1: You know, once you saw it evolving, you realize what
Speaker 1: it was. Like I said, it had been done Sunday
Speaker 1: as well, but that's that's not you know, coming out
Speaker 1: of the gate firing. That's coming out of the gate
Speaker 1: honoring and so and it was so well done, Like
Speaker 1: there were so many things prior to the game that
Speaker 1: we're emotion packed moments with everybody pouring in and again
Speaker 1: it affected me too. I was, you know, uh, as
Speaker 1: you say, trying to broadcast the game getting choked up,
Speaker 1: and that that's what happens when you're in a community
Speaker 1: like this, a setting where where everybody feels emotional about
Speaker 1: everything that's happened with the passing of Kobe Bryant. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and then these got to these guys got to come
Speaker 1: out and compete, and you could almost see, like Tobias
Speaker 1: on a drive early in the game, like all right,
Speaker 1: we gotta get going here. And then, like I said,
Speaker 1: once I think everybody broke a sweat, and once you know,
Speaker 1: the competition rises and the guys feel it. Then then
Speaker 1: I think they were able to go out and play
Speaker 1: basketball and that's what they do, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: what Howell was saying post game. Then then you kind
Speaker 1: of felt it a little bit. And we're kind of
Speaker 1: at that point then lifted by by the emotion and
Speaker 1: the sentiments. So definitely a different night, you know, like
Speaker 1: we we you know, we hope we're never in the
Speaker 1: place again, right yes, And yet tonight it was so
Speaker 1: well done by the Sixers and everybody felt it, you know, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was an emotional time, still tough. Seventy Sixers beat
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors, one fifteen to one oh four,
Speaker 1: winning for the seventh time in their last eight games.
Speaker 1: The difference tim In the seven games before tonight, they've
Speaker 1: gone six and one without Joel and b Joel comes back,
Speaker 1: scores twenty four, amazingly gets ten rebounds in a number
Speaker 1: twenty four uniform. But I mean, I I don't know
Speaker 1: how you saw it. I feel like he got more
Speaker 1: and more in rhythm as the game went along, and
Speaker 1: with this big road trip coming up, I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see what he might be able to give. But Honestly,
Speaker 1: I thought its rhythm was off, and yet he was
Speaker 1: still making shots like it wasn't a textbook form on
Speaker 1: a lot of these leaning in bang shots, but he
Speaker 1: was still able to make them and get to the line.
Speaker 1: So and to me, that's oh, and you win the game.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, it's going to take a little time
Speaker 1: to get back into that rhythm and have the feel
Speaker 1: and whatnot. And here he had a double double without
Speaker 1: being one hundred percent I think physically, probably emotionally a
Speaker 1: little bit. And yet you know, like you say, here
Speaker 1: you go. You're going on this trip and it's a
Speaker 1: huge games up and down the line. We Boston Miami,
Speaker 1: down the road in Milwaukee a week from Thursday, and
Speaker 1: it starts in Atlanta on Thursday. Seventy Sixers over the
Speaker 1: Warriors one fifteen to one oh four. Time we'll speak
Speaker 1: to you from Atlanta on Thursday. All right, good night,
Speaker 1: thanks Brian. Sixers win for the seventh time in eight games.
Speaker 1: They've got some good momentum on their side. They take
Speaker 1: on the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday. Of course, a different
Speaker 1: type of night entirely given the past forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: so much emotion for the seventy Sixers as in the
Speaker 1: backyard of whereing Kobe Bryant grew up. They took the
Speaker 1: floor for the first time since it's passing on Sunday,
Speaker 1: let us get to some of the highlight calls with
Speaker 1: the one and only Tom mcguinnis. It was definitely a
Speaker 1: very staid, respectful, somber pregame scene, no hype music, no
Speaker 1: player intros. Shot clock violations of eight and twenty four
Speaker 1: seconds respectively for the Sixers and Warriors, but after that
Speaker 1: it was like game on and both sides were trying
Speaker 1: to feel their way into the start of this game.
Speaker 1: It was great to see joellenbad back out there for
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers, back out top the shake and the
Speaker 1: Sixers go to a bed eight to shoot Joel against Chris.
Speaker 1: Chris knocks it away. Joel's got his left hand bandaged.
Speaker 1: He's gonna shoot him from the wing and make it
Speaker 1: so be with his first field goal in the game
Speaker 1: that put the seventy Sixers in front eight to seven.
Speaker 1: They would trail Golden State twenty seven twenty six after one.
Speaker 1: Who was the man who kind of let the spark
Speaker 1: for the seventy Sixers tonight oh well, Nato the Sixers
Speaker 1: with Horford screaming for Netto, Howel for three and good Man,
Speaker 1: he's got a great case about him. Howell Netto called
Speaker 1: late to the left perimeter and he knocks it out.
Speaker 1: He's off to the best start he's had as a sixer,
Speaker 1: no question about it. He was six verse seven in
Speaker 1: the second quarter, scoring fifteen of his season high nineteen
Speaker 1: points in the frame. Sixers got things rolling towards the
Speaker 1: end of the first half. Bible Mayham mocked Damian Lee's
Speaker 1: attempt cork mos fort an near quarner and now Bible
Speaker 1: download a Hartford and a jam great movement with the
Speaker 1: basketball Sixers movement to the near side then into the
Speaker 1: lane of Horford al Horford would nine seventy sixes with
Speaker 1: lead fifty five forty six at that point with time
Speaker 1: winding down in the second quarter. Their lead was fifty
Speaker 1: nine to fifty four at the break, and the third
Speaker 1: quarter of Golden State, led briefly by two seventy sixers,
Speaker 1: made a late surge towards the end of the frame
Speaker 1: and they were able to go up by batalion eighty
Speaker 1: six eighty two heading into the fourth and that was
Speaker 1: when a nine nothing run began. Both teams came together
Speaker 1: for that national anthem. Here's a lot to Simmons and
Speaker 1: sipments of the right hand, jam shape Milton with a
Speaker 1: feet from out fund and Simmons gathers it with his
Speaker 1: right hand and powerfully stuffs it. Joel and be kept
Speaker 1: adding to his total. Joel and b to Cork mos
Speaker 1: corkmas back when bt to Marie Spellman on Joel into
Speaker 1: the night ain't jump hook with the right hand and
Speaker 1: got it. He got a roll off the side of
Speaker 1: the rim and be with twenty points. Seventy Sixers a
Speaker 1: big nine nothing run to seize controls. Shake Milton, who
Speaker 1: made the second straight start of his career and a
Speaker 1: second overall, was able to help put the finishing touches
Speaker 1: on another win for these the Warriors turn it over
Speaker 1: run out for Shake, built down low, well done defensively
Speaker 1: Milton in the name Milton with the other hand left
Speaker 1: hand scoop and stood shake rattling roll time out Warriors.
Speaker 1: Job well done by Shake Milton. In the seventy sixers tonight,
Speaker 1: which is one of those games he had to get through,
Speaker 1: and the seventy sixers did it. They went at one, fifteen,
Speaker 1: one oh four the now thirty one and seventeen over all.
Speaker 1: The Golden State Warriors dropped a ten and thirty eight.
Speaker 1: Six Ers shot over fifty one percent from the field,
Speaker 1: held Golden State to forty two and a half percent.
Speaker 1: Eleven threes for the Sixers, fifteen for the Warriors, seventy
Speaker 1: sixers plus four on the glass, but only two offensive rebounds,
Speaker 1: Sixers with sixteen turnovers and the Warriors with fourteen twenty
Speaker 1: four and ten for Joel Embiid in his return, seventeen
Speaker 1: for Ben Simmons, al hore for nearly a triple double
Speaker 1: with twelve eleven and eight nineteen for Wholeno off the bench,
Speaker 1: eleven for Shake Milton in fourteen for Tobias Harris. Up
Speaker 1: next for the seventy six Ers a game on Thursday
Speaker 1: versus the Atlanta Hawks, the start of a four game
Speaker 1: road trip that moves on to Boston, Miami, and Milwaukee
Speaker 1: over the course of the next week. You've been listening
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